Doha, December 21 (QNA) – The State of Qatar, represented by the Permanent Population Committee, will participate in the fourth ordinary session of the Arab Council for Population and Development of the General Secretariat of the Arab League, which will take place at a ministerial level on Thursday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

HE President of the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) and Chairman of the Permanent Population Committee, Dr. Saleh bin Mohammed Al Nabit chairs Qatar’s delegation.

The agenda of the session includes the discussion of important issues, including the scheduling of multiple coordination activities with the Member States to prepare for the regional review and a high-level conference on the tenth regional review of the Cairo Declaration on Population and Development to be held in June 2023 in Beirut.

The President of the Planning and Statistics Authority and the Chairman of the Permanent Population Committee will address the participants at the opening of this session to reflect on the development achievements made by the Arab countries in the past few decades.

He will outline the social and economic challenges facing these countries and the negative impact of their development sustainability to variable degrees.

He will highlight the need for the intervention to restore the relative balance in the equation of the population and development and to address the internal and external challenges that lead to complicating the social and economic situations in the Arab countries, in line with the objective of the Arab Council for Population and Development.

(QNA)

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